As we enter 2022, chairmen need to contemplate how they and their board can continue to be successful and add value in a world that may continue to be uncertain and unpredictable. While it’s important to be optimistic about the future, pragmatism is required due to the continuing fallout from the COVID crisis. Ensure role […]
Fiona Logan, Chief Executive of Insights, explores how leaders can help their businesses maintain the valuable intimacy generated over the past couple of years as businesses look ahead to 2022. Go back two years and intimacy wasn’t something associated with the world of work. Instead, it might have been used to describe a close relationship […]
The fallout from Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic, including rising costs and supply shortages, is continuing to affect organisations across all areas of the business landscape. As a result, decision-makers must find ways to live with disruption for the foreseeable future by rapidly adapting their business models, while keeping costs under control. A constant challenge […]
Love him or loathe him, there is no denying that Elon Musk is one of the world’s most influential people. 2021 saw the Tesla CEO crowned Time magazine’s “Person of the Year'' as his electric vehicle company became the most valuable in the world, his space company successfully carried an all-civilian crew to the edge […]
The evolution of remote working has been a topic of conversation throughout the current century, but it is only in the past two years that it has entered the mainstream. While the impact of remote working on businesses and their workforces has been covered extensively during the pandemic, there remains one point that is worth reiterating: […]
The global COVID-19 pandemic has made many of us better understand the harsh realities of pathogens in the air we breathe and how, without the proper ventilation, we could be exposed to various cases of flu and colds. As a result of this concern, businesses are having to update their health and safety policies and […]
Paul Pethick, author of Power of Play: How play and its games shape life, explains how play can advance your leadership. What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you see the word ‘play’? If it’s the opposite of work, your kid’s pre-school or, at best, a team-building afternoon on the third floor, then […]
Claire Rychlewski, SVP at EMEA Business at Kinaxis, takes a look at the road to sustainability maturity for the supply chain. Sustainability is a complex and ever-evolving issue that is becoming increasingly sophisticated in the demands it places on companies. Widely accepted as both a moral and business imperative, it has elevated to a board-level […]
Ian Thatcher, co-founder of Dangerfield & Fortune, explains the opportunity cost of failing to engage with communities as a business. Developing new, commercially focussed ways for communities to work in partnership with construction, telco and utility businesses could revolutionise community liaison and public consultation, providing the catalyst to bringing about lasting change to the systems […]
According to several media reports, Apple employees were informed of the decision via a memo sent by the company’s chief executive Tim Cook on Wednesday. The memo also noted that each employee, including retail workers, would receive $1,000 to spend on home office equipment, according to NBC News. The memo also encouraged employees to get […]
In a statement, Chanel said that French billionaire Alain Wertheimer, who owns Chanel with his brother Gerard Wertheimer, would take on the role of global executive chairman. Nair, 52, has 30 years of experience at Unilever. She has served as the global consumer goods company’s first female, first Asian, and youngest ever Chief Human Resources […]
Speaking to CNBC’s Wilfred Frost on Monday, Gorman said, “I was wrong on this [...] I thought we would have been out of it past Labor Day and we’re not.” Back in June of this year, the Morgan Stanley CEO told conference attendees that he would be “very disappointed” if his employees failed to return […]
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